Leopold I of Austria

Leopold I of Austria (9 June 1640-5 May 1705) was the Emperor of the Austrian Empire/Holy Roman Empire/Kingdom of Hungary from 1658 to 1705.

Biography
Leopold I was the son of Ferdinand III of Austria and Maria Anna of Spain, and was a member of the House of Hapsburg. He became emperor at the age of eighteen, and he fought a war against the Kingdom of France in the Franco-Dutch War of 1670. The Coalition failed to bring down the French, but thirteen years later, he proved his skill in his defense of Vienna with aid from Jan Sobieski of Poland against the Ottoman Empire. In the 1690s he defeated both French and Ottomans several times, and when he made peace with the Ottomans in 1700, he focused on defeating France in the War of the Spanish Succession.